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Hampi or Hampe (Kannada:), also referred to as the Group of Monuments at Hampi, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the town of Hampi in Vijayanagara district, east-central Karnataka, India. [2] Hampi predates the Vijayanagara Empire; it is mentioned in the Ramayana and the Puranas of Hinduism as Pampa Devi Tirtha Kshetra.
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Hampi, known as Kishkindha in the Ramayana age is a city in the Vijayanagara district in the Indian state of Karnataka. [2] Located along the Tungabhadra River in the east and center part of the state, Hampi is near the city of Hospet. It is famous for hosting the Hampi Group of Monuments with the Virupaksha Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site ...
List of Lebanese monuments Baalbek Temples; Beaufort Castle; Beiteddine Palace in Beiteddine; Byblos Castle in Byblos; Cedars of God in North Lebanon; Deir al-Qamar; Fakhreddine Palace in Chouf District
The Directorate General of Antiquities (DGA; Arabic: المديرية العامة للآثار, romanized: al-Mudīrīyah al-ʻĀmmah lil-Āthār) is a Lebanese government directorate, technical unit of the Ministry of Culture and is responsible for the protection, promotion and excavation activities in all sites of national heritage in Lebanon. [1]
About half the population of the Mount Lebanon subdivision, overwhelmingly Maronites, starved to death (200,000 killed out of 400,000 of the total populace) throughout the years of 1915–1918 during what is now known as the Great Famine of Mount Lebanon, [43] as a consequence of a mixed combination of crop failure, punitive governance ...
The National Museum of Beirut (Arabic: متحف بيروت الوطنيّ, Matḥaf Bayrūt al-waṭanī) is the principal museum of archaeology in Lebanon. The collection begun after World War I , and the museum was officially opened in 1942.
Burial monuments and structures in Lebanon (1 C) Pages in category "Monuments and memorials in Lebanon" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.